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Fluid Boundaries of Blackness and the Population Paradigm
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Fluid Boundaries of Blackness and the Population Paradigm

Anthropology News·Managing Editor·about 2 months ago
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On June 4, 2020, comedian Godfrey C. Danchimah, a US-born child of Nigerian immigrants known professionally as Godfrey, was featured on VladTV. The popular YouTube channel, with over 6.2 million subscribers, is hosted by DJ Vlad. During part of the  interview , Godfrey jokes about Dominican and Puerto Rican people who appear to him as Black but deny being Black. Godfrey’s shtick is voice impersonation, so in the interview, he enacts a conversation between himself and himself as a Dominican person with a strong Dominican Spanish accent. The conversation goes back and forth with Godfrey insisting that the Dominican is Black and the Dominican insisting that he is not Black. As Godfrey personifies the Dominican caricature, he mimics salsa dancing while loudly rejecting any argument that he is Black. “Be looking just like me… having the same hair… He’s like it’s not the same… It’s not the same Papi, it’s not the same. They be trying to salsa that shit off…” ( 8:28-8:36 ).…

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